“I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.” BigsCultureReadingNovelCrimeYouthIndustryReaderBecomingLateInnocentTransitionFascinatedKeithReversalYouth Culture Author:Jo Nesbo
“Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane, and so she did. The key word is beloved. Her admirers do not analyze her books so much as they just plain love them to pieces.” BookEndsLanguageNovelPiecesKeysBecomingSixBelovedJaneEnglish LanguageAdmirerAusten Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009 Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009
“The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.” WayYearsMeanReasonDoneStoriesWantedNovelFailingWrittenStudentsBecomingShort StoryOperaNew WaysEssaysGearsScreenplays Author:Ray Bradbury
“When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.” LiteratureNovelBecomingCaughtTake MeMathematicianCaught UpSave MeDevouring Author:Mark Haddon
“Irving Wallace wrote a bestselling novel, The Man, in the 1960s about a black man becoming president of the United States. We thought that such a possibility was thousands of years in the future. Some people may still have some difficulty with the idea, but that's a major cultural meme shift.” PeopleMenYearsMayStillsIdeasStatesBlackPresidentUnitedUnited StatesNovelPossibilityHe ManBecomingMajorsDifficulty1960sMemesBecoming President Author:Wayne Dyer
“Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.” MadeCharacterFoundFatherParentInterestingNovelBecomingBecoming A Father Author:John Green
“I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than a book of stories, obviously, especially through big publishers.” ThinkingBookStoriesBigsNovelPathBecomingEasierPublishers Author:Jess Walter
“There's also an immediacy to everything that has changed everybody's expectations. Now if I can't get a hold of somebody on their cell phone I'm, like, angry with them. And in my mind, all the things that I really value in terms of art, really good novels or films or comics, I know they all take a long, long time to create, and they take a lot of concentration and dedication...and I just feel like the training for that is becoming more and more rare when people are used to seeing things like YouTube clips, and being able to acquire things instantly.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsMindLongArtI CanAbleFilmUsedValuesTermNovelSeeingChangedLike YouBecomingLong TimeTrainingExpectationsAngryPhonesCellsAcquireConcentrationDedicationYoutubeCell PhoneBecoming MoreClipImmediacy Author:Adrian Tomine